Girls: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Girls: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Katy gets the first break of set 2: 6-2 2*-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

A lot of tight games which Katy has the happy knack of edging: 6-2 4*-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

Katy wins 6-2 6-2 - an impressive scoreline against an opponent ranked 700 WTA

blob · All-time great

Well done.

DavidC · Tennis legend

As expected it's the highly rated Spaniard up next for Katy

R2

(7) Katy Dunne (GBR) v (Q) Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP)

Doubles R1

(5) Boulter/Dunne (GBR) v Shymanovich/Silich (RUS)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good solid first win. Hope she can keep on winning

blob · All-time great

Katie Boulter is 3rd after 10:00 UK on Court 5 tomorrow.

korriban · Challenger level

korriban wrote:
For any Star Wars fans out there, I noticed a girl called J Fett lost today in the first round according to the RG website. This is hysterically amusing, of course. But for everyone else, this will mean absolutely nothing, and I apologize to them.

My apologies to Jan(a) Fett who in fact WON her R1 match and is now giving Taylor Townsend a good battle on Court 10. Up on court 11 is D. Vader against L. Skywalker in a repeat of their previous Grand Slam contest back in 1983.

blob · All-time great

Katie Boulter finding it tough going, as expected.
2-6 4-5*

blob · All-time great

And despite a creditable showing in the second set, having seemingly served poorly in the firts, Katie loses to the top seed.
Konjuh seems to have gobbled up the Boulter 2nd serve.

2-6 4-6

DavidC · Tennis legend

That's a highly creditable score for Katie. Katy has an equally daunting task first up on court 14. She returns with Katie fourth on court 5

Spectator · All-time great

I'm not David C, who will be able to give a more comprehensive explanation, but I did look at the Appendix that he or Steven circulated ... recollection is that the WTA rankings for entry and seeding have a much higher cut-off than the ATP rankings.

Katy just had two set points on her opponent's serve at 6-5, but her opponent saved them.

-- Edited by Spectator on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 10:17:45 AM

korriban · Challenger level

Question for DavidC.

The girl playing Katy today is unranked and had to qualify to reach the main draw. She hasn't bothered much with juniors, as is often the way in Spain.

However her WTA/ITF singles ranking is in the 300s, and in the last 12 months she's won 3 $10k events and reached a $25k final.

She beat Annika Beck (top 70 player and rising) in straight sets a month ago!!!!!

By rights she should be regarded as one of the top 3 or 4 players in the draw and ranked accordingly, but has not been so.

Over in the boys event, Kyle is top 450 ATP (just) and has won 2 $10k events, yet he gets a special seeding of 5.

What's the difference?

Bob the Ball Boy · Junior player

first set to katy, 7-5 :)